^_ iThe "Bdise fflen. ^. 



(a CHRISTMAS REVEKIE. ) 



thought which each (Lhristraas £ 

 loYC to let play 

 Thro' ]ny mi ad, is of three who rode far away, 

 Star guided by night, faith guided by day, 

 i]a quest of the place where the (Lhrist-child lay. 

 Ten thousand sages have lived since then, 



(Sreat^monarchs have ruled, great teachers have 



taught, 



(Sreat painters have painted, great sculptors have 

 wrought, 

 Sreat poets have chanted divine truths to men ; 

 yet the three whom the world calls '' the wise men" are they 

 ^V\Cho journeyed afar by a devious way. 

 Star-guided by night, faith-guided by day, 

 Till they knelt in the place where ffic (Bf\zi:>\[-chiib lay. 



Ill the Brunoiiini(, 



Vernon f. ^c^uie^es. 



